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I had planned to put a new set of goals for the year, quarter, month, week in yesterday’s post. But, that post was already getting pretty long. So, I decided to save it for today. I’m going to break each set of goals up the way I usually do, into writing/plotting/editing…and so on. Now, time to get to them:

2017

I have a tendency to change what I’m working on throughout the year. That’s a long time to plan ahead for after all. So, these I may keep a bit more vague than I usually do.

Plotting:

Plot 9 new novels/novellas among 5 active series + 1 standalone novel

Re-plot 2 novels to be rewritten

Stained Blood(Stained #3)

East of Abilene(Directions of Love #1)

Writing:

Finish all 5 active WiPs

Defending the Heart(BC Security #2)

Crash and Burn(Flames #5.5)

Not Meant to Be(Gilbert, CO #6)

Stay a Little Longer(Kurztown #5)

In the Moonlight

Work on 5 more WiPs

Editing:

Rewrite Stained Blood(Stained #3)

Revise next in active series

Demons Rising(Gilbert, CO #3) – this title is likely to change

Flames of Justice(Flames #2.5)

Scars and All(Kurztown #2)

Publishing:

These will depend on getting stuff back from my critique partner and beta readers, so there’s some lack of control in that, but I still hope to get to them:

Stained Blood(Stained #3)

Law of Choice(Kurztown # .5)

Flames of Renewal(Flames #2)

Guarding the Heart(BC Security #1)

Demons Rising(Gilbert, CO #3)

Side Projects:

Revise Snow White Twist, give it a real title, and submit to World Unknown Review

Finish rewriting Midas’ Daughter & revise

finish drafting Dance with the Devil, revise & post to Wattpad

Write Icarus & Cassie’s story(Riders of Justice #4)

Start Hawk’s story(Riders of Justice #5)

Add 6000 words each to back story novellas

Blogging:

Just Jot It January – I’m counting this for today’s “jot”, though I may do a separate post from my usual ones depending on what the prompt is.

A-Z Challenge – I’ll be writing Icarus & Cassie’s story as a serial for this

Story a Day May

Story a Day September

RoW80 – Keep up to date on my 2x weekly posts as well as commenting on others’ posts

Any other challenges that come up throughout the year

Reading:

Listen: 50 audiobooks

Read: 350 books

Crafting:

Knit: 9 projects

Crochet: 9 projects

Loom: 9 projects

#Row80 Round 1:

Plotting:

Loving the Devil – Outline

Playing With Fire(Flames #6/The Rileys #1) – Outline

Heart of Christmas(BC Security novella)

High on Your Love(Kurztown #6)

Writing:

In the Moonlight – 1st draft

Crash and Burn – 1st draft

Defending the Heart – 1st draft

Stay a Little Longer – add 39000 words

Not Meant to Be – add 12000 words

Loving the Devil – start drafting

Playing with Fire – start drafting

Heart of Christmas – start drafting

Revising:

Stained Blood – Rewrite

Demons Rising – Revise

Flames of Renewal – Send to CP & do edits if I get it back before the end of the round

Snow White Twist – Fill in Details

Side Projects:

Midas’ Daughter – Get to 13000 words

Dance with the Devil – finish 1st draft

Patrick & Sarah – get to 5400 words

Tavin & Haiwee – get to 4675 words

Roman – get to 5800 words

Dougal & Shae – get to 4000 words

Blogging:

Row80 – keep up to date with own posts & others

Just Jot it January – 30 posts(since I already skipped day 1)

Reading:

Listen: 12 books

Read: 90 books

Crafting:

Knit: 3 projects

Crochet: 3 projects

Loom: 3 projects

January:

Plotting:

Loving the Devil – Outline

Playing with Fire – Outline

Writing:

In the Moonlight – 1st draft

Crash and Burn – 1st draft

Defending the Heart – 4000 words

Stay a Little Longer – 4000 words

Not Meant to Be – 4000 words

Revising:

Stained Blood – re-plot & start re-write

Demons Rising – revisions

Side Projects:

Midas’ Daughter – get to 8500 words

Dance with the Devil – get to 28500 words/finish 1st draft

Patrick & Sarah – get to 4275 words

Tavin & Haiwee – get to 3550 words

Roman – get to 4680 words

Dougal & Shae – get to 280 words

Blogging:

Just Jot It January – 30 posts

A-Z Challenge – plot posts

RoW80 – stay up to date

Reading:

Listen: 8 books

Read: 31 books

Crafting:

Knit: Craigiecatt Hat

Crochet: Giraffe Hat

Loom: Meadow Moss Headband

And, finally, for this week:

Write: 14000 words(2k on main project a day, 1k on others a week)

Stained Blood – start re-plotting once back from CP

Loving the Devil – start Story Toolkit

Playing with Fire – finish back stories, plot summary, start Story Tooklit

Comments on: "New Year, New Month, New Start" (6)

Wow. Good for you for being that organized. Right now I’m just wondering how I’m going to get my house cleaned after the holiday chaos. I haven’t even thought seriously about what my writing year is going to look like.

Being organized is pretty much the only way I get anything done.
I had our tree put away a few days after Christmas. I hate leaving everything out. We had the kids put all their toys away last night after leaving everything out most of the week. They went back to school today, so now I’m trying to get back to a regular routine.